Gov. Jay Inslee has named Brian Bonlender, his long serving chief-of-staff in the U.S. House of Representatives, to serve as the new director of the Washington Department of Commerce. Bonlender was director of Inslee’s transition team. Bonlender is the second former top House aide to follow the former boss to Olympia. Joby Shimomura, who managed […]
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Two legislative districts, entirely in Seattle, provided the victory margin that elected Gov. Jay Inslee and extended Democrats’ 28-year occupancy of the Washington governor’s office, according to Republican nominee and former Attorney General Rob McKenna. In figures crunched by McKenna and his campaign chief Randy Pepple, the 36th and 43rd Districts, covering much of northwest […]
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Gov. Jay Inslee had a “very satisfying” meeting over Washington’s voter-passed marijuana legalization initiative Tuesday with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder n the “other” Washington, with hints of how the federal government might live with Initiative 502. “Look, we want to avoid a legal fight here,” state Attorney General Bob Ferguson told Holder, while emphasizing […]
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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee will meet in Washington, D.C., next week with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to discuss the state’s implementation of Initiative 502, which makes legal the possession of up to one ounce of marijuana by persons 21 and older. “The governor asked for the meeting to discuss implementation of the marijuana law: […]
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Gov.-elect Jay Inslee on Friday announced the reappointment of Washington State Patrol Chief John Batiste and State Corrections Secretary Bernard Warner, the latest in a series of cabinet-level and executive appointments drawn from the Olympia bureaucracy and those familiar with it. The Washington State Patrol Troopers Association wanted Batiste replaced, but Inslee said in a […]
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